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Marie Concannon Receives National Library Award for “Prices and Wages by the Decade”

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Marie Concannon, head of government information for the University of Missouri Libraries, has been awarded the 2023 NewsBank/Readex/GODORT/ALA Catharine J. Reynolds Award from the Government Documents Round Table of the American Library Association. This award provides funding for research that would make a contribution to the field of documents librarianship. The prize will be used to fund a student position in the library’s Government Information department to help expand the “Prices and Wages by Decade” web guide.

GODORT stated, “The Awards Committee is excited and impressed with your website and research project Prices and Wages by Decade, and acknowledges the immense value it offers to researchers everywhere.”

The “Prices and Wages by Decade” guide points to retail prices and average wages in primary source materials, mainly government documents. The research guide has found fans across campus, the state and the world since Concannon created it in 2012.

Concannon has received two previous awards for the “Prices and Wages by Decade” guide from the Reference and User Services division of ALA.

home Events and Exhibits Black History Month – The Missouri Sharecroppers Strike: Black Resistance in Depression Era Exhibit

Black History Month – The Missouri Sharecroppers Strike: Black Resistance in Depression Era Exhibit

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On display in Ellis Library colonnade.

In January of 1939 St. Louis Post-Dispatch photojournalist Arthur Witman documented the Missouri Sharecropper’s Strike along Highways 60 and 61 in Southeast Missouri.  The local landowners had been given federal funds by the Depression era Agriculture Adjustment Administration (A.A.A) to leave their farmland fallow, and many of these property holders chose to keep the money for themselves and evict the workers who had farmed their land.  African American labor leader, Rev. Owen Whitfield, organized a strike to protest these evictions, bringing roughly 1500 of the farm workers together in roadside shantytowns that called public attention to their plight. The exhibition of photographs includes images of the strike as well as Witman’s later photos of nearby Cropperville, a village created after the protest where many of the displaced sharecroppers came to live and work communally.

SHSMO Art Curator Joan Stack will present a lecture on the exhibition Feb. 22, 2:30 to 3:30, in Ellis Library.

Exhibition and lecture sponsored by The University of Missouri’s Black History Month Committee, The State Historical Society of Missouri, and MU Libraries

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Lockers with Chargers Available in Ellis Library

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Looking for a place to store your items and charge your phone? Personal storage lockers with USB chargers are available in Ellis Library, next to the elevators on the main floor.

These lockers are free to use, but a Mizzou TigerCard (MU ID) is required for access. These lockers were purchased with funds from the Enhance Mizzou student fee.

Spacesaver Lockers

  • There are two USB charger ports to charge electronic devices in each locker. Chargers are available at the Check Out and Information Desk.
  • You can only use one locker at a time.
  • Lockers can only be used for one day at a time. Any items left in the lockers overnight will be taken to Lost and Found at the Ellis Library West Entrance Desk.

Instructions

  • Push on the door to open the locker door. Available lockers have a green light on the numbered panel. Occupied lockers have a red light.
  • Put Items in the locker.Charge electronic devices by plugging into USB charger ports.
  • Close locker door. Press your Mizzou TigerCard against the numbered panel to lock the door. The light will turn red. Remember your locker number.
  • Open the locked door by pressing your Mizzou TigerCard against the numbered panel. The light will turn green and the door will open.

Contact the Ellis Safety Team at the West or North entrance if you have any problems using the lockers.

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Affordable & Open Educational Resources Team Consultation Available Now

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Are you ready to explore more affordable textbook options for your students? Do you need help customizing existing OER or creating and sharing your open materials? Request a team consultation! We can match you with MU librarians, instructional designers, and bookstore administrators who can guide you through the process of locating, evaluating, and using affordable and open educational resources. Click here to request a team consultation.

Do you want to know more about OER before diving into planning for your course? You can meet with your subject librarian one-on-one or if you would like to recruit a few colleagues to join you, we’ll create a custom OER workshop for your group that will help you know more about how to find, create and use high-quality OER. Contact Jeannette Pierce, associate university librarian for research, access & instructional services, at piercejea@missouri.edu for more information.

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Stay Connected with the Mizzou Libraries: Sign Up for Our Newsletter

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Whether you want research help in person or remotely, the Mizzou Libraries will stay connected with you! To find out everything the Mizzou Libraries can do to help you, subscribe to one of our newsletters. The Mizzou Libraries want you to have a successful spring semester!

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AM Explorer Primary Source Collection Now Available

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The MU Libraries are pleased to announce a new two-year license for access to the entire AM Explorer online primary source collection from Adam Matthews. AM Explorer’s digitized archival collections are vast in geographical and temporal scope, and may be browsed by geography, genre, or subject. Even handwritten sources are searchable using handwriting analysis.

Collection titles include:

  • American Indian Newspapers;
  • Service Newspapers of World War Two;
  • Ethnomusicology: Global Field Recordings;
  • Gender: Identity and Social Change; and
  • many more.

Researchers and instructors are encouraged to search, explore and create high quality class projects based on these collections.

The MU Libraries’ AM Explorer license uses an innovative Evidence Based Acquisition model. At the end of the two-year license, librarians will assess usage and seek faculty input to purchase ongoing access to the most valuable collections for our campus.

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Welcome to Mara Inge

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The MU Libraries are pleased to announce that Mara Inge has been hired as the electronic resources and discovery librarian. Mara has a Master of Library and Information Science and a Bachelor of Arts in art history and archaeology from the University of Missouri. She worked as a senior library information specialist at the MU Engineering Library and Technology Commons since 2018. Before that, Mara was a document control coordinator at the MU Research Reactor.

home Events and Exhibits “Picturing Women Inventors” Exhibit on Display in Ellis Library

“Picturing Women Inventors” Exhibit on Display in Ellis Library

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Picturing Women Inventors is organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service in collaboration with the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation, and was developed in collaboration with the United States Patent and Trademark Office and made possible with the support of the Lyda Hill Philanthropies IF/THEN Initiative and Ericsson.

This exhibit, which is currently on display in Ellis Library, includes a selection of books about inventions and patents which was drawn from the MU Libraries’ collection. It will be on display until February.

home Events and Exhibits “Provenance: Everywhere in Everything” Exhibit on Display in Ellis Library

“Provenance: Everywhere in Everything” Exhibit on Display in Ellis Library

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Now on display, “Provenance: Everywhere in Everything” showcases research and creative works completed by students enrolled in the Honors Seminar during Fall 2022, GN_HON 1050H, “Get Real, Go Places! Let Objects Take You There.” The eight-week course takes as its focus the study of material culture, specifically the opportunities for research that objects and artifacts make possible. Students are introduced to the concept of provenance and the practices of interpreting, inspecting, and writing about objects through regular use of a sketchbook journal and weekly syntheses shared with classmates. The course is taught by Dr. Sarah Buchanan of the iSchool at the University of Missouri (in the College of Education and Human Development) and by gallery, library, archive, and museum professionals based on the Mizzou campus who belong to the Material Culture Studies Group, established in 2014.

The expansive idea of provenance was introduced to Honors students as information about an object – its origins, ownership history, and creation contexts. Students’ fact-finding research projects crossed cultures and made innovative use of MU Libraries’ resources to tell, visually and creatively, new stories about cultural public heritage. Our student showcase features 18 art objects created by 12 undergraduate students, each based on the class visit to a particular collection on the Columbia campus. Students created weekly syntheses reflecting on their visit and a culminating analysis of specific objects conducive to continued study.

On display here are tributes to the Francis Quadrangle’s late great pin oak trees in the form of an original piano composition and a full-color garden redesign proposal, collages both of haunted Columbia buildings and a nun’s Book of Hours from ca. 1530, a biography of Armenian-American artist Stephen Sacklarian’s “Reality of Unreality XXIV” painting, digital art about “finding home away from home,” an etymological / theological study of “providence as the fulfillment and completion of provenance,” clay letters and a handmade Processional inspired by an illuminated manuscript, an impression of fiber art shown in “The Things of This World: Works by Sarah Nguyen” in the George Caleb Bingham Gallery, a 3D visualization of chaos depicted in a painting by Bingham, drawings of Greek and Egyptian gods, and visual aids for oil lamps and making papyrus, among other provenance storytellings. For their contributions to the success of the course we gratefully thank: Catherine Armbrust, Jessica Boldt, Chris Daniggelis, Connor Frew for the RISO room, Kelli Hansen, Rachel Harper, Nicole Johnston, Benton Kidd, Andrew Long for Ceramics, Maggie Mayhan, Pete Millier, artist Sarah Nguyen, Candace Sall, Karlan Seville, Joan Stack, and Kenzie Wells and dedicate the exhibit in memory of Chancellor (1978-1987) Barbara Uehling, originator of the Mizzou Botanic Garden.

The course will next be offered in Fall 2023 – join us!

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Welcome to Emilee Flores

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Welcome to Emilee Flores. Emilee moved to Missouri from Louisiana, where she previously worked in the circulation and ILL units for several years in Sims Library at Southeastern Louisiana University. She hopes to eventually enroll in the School of Information Science and Learning Technology here at Mizzou.